"You damned waitress! take our orders already and get out!"
Amelia who could not help being ignored any longer yelled causing Rhea to roll her eyes. She remained calm not wanting to cause any trouble.
"May I take your orders?" Rhea asked calmly with a forced smile. She cursed the restaurant back and forth for making them to be so polite and kind to just anyone.
"You could have done that much earlier.." Amelia hissed.
"Your orders please" Rhea repeated ignoring Amelia.
"Ain't you taught to respect your costumers here?" Amelia questioned not happy Rhea was successfully ignoring her.
"Asking you to place your orders is not counted as disrespect either ma'am" Rhea said calmly. Although she threw a subtle jab at Amelia, she still choose her words wisely. She didn't forget to smile politely either. 'So much for being a waitress' she thought.
Eris who have ignored the two ladies nodded inwardly at Rhea's response. 'At least, she proved wise' he thought.
"Place your order already, the waitress does not have all day" Eris said in his signature cold voice that was devoid of any form of emotion.
"Vegetable salad and water" Amelia said with gritted teeth. she was unhappy Eris sided with Rhea.
"Why that?" Eris raised his head to look at her. Amelia face immediately lit up with a smile. She was happy she finally had Eris attention.
"Oh, I'm on diet" She said grinning.
'Stupid ...stupid fool' Rhea thought.
Eris gave Amelia a look over and thought she was too skinny to be watching weight so why diet but he didn't care anyways. 'it could be women's trend now' he thought.
"Ah I see" he said dropping his gaze back to his phone. His lack of expression caused Amelia's smile to drop drastically.
"And you sir?"
"Should I order for you?" Amelia quickly chipped in smiling flirtatiously.
"No nevermind" Eris said without glancing at her.
"Do you serve Italian dishes?" He asked still concentrating on his phone.
"Yes we do, is there anything you like? You can as well look into the menu or...you just want me to make an order for any Italian dish we serve here..."
"No, let me see the menu" He dropped his phone and picked the menu list at the edge of the table.
"Hmm... you have quite good Italian dishes here. I like that" He said nodding his head in satisfaction.
"You are welcome sir, in this restaurant, we are after the satisfaction of every costumer" Rhea said humbly.
"Good" He murmured.
Once again, Amelia was not happy with the small talks they were making. Knowing Eris for a while, he never made small talks, most times, he doesn't even speak to her at all so why was he being so considerate of a mere waitress and even polite!
'This horrible bitch, what is she trying to do exactly. Before she think of getting her claws on my Eris, I will break her fingers! I really need to teach her a lesson and put her in her position before it is too late—' Amelia thought.
"Plenty servings of Mushroom Risotto, some American cuisines and a bottle of your best wine" Eris ordered.
Rhea's jaw nearly dropped but she comported herself. She didn't expect a man looking so good to eat some much.
Rhea excused herself to get their orders. She returned with another waitress and arranged the dishes carefully and professionally on the table.
Having finished the arrangement, Rhea and the other waitress turned to leave but Rhea stopped on her track as she felt a cold liquid splashed on her cloth. The cold liquid seeped through the cloth and touched her skin. She shivered.
The other waitress who stood beside her jumped in surprise and looked from drenched Rhea to Amelia who committed the assault.
Taking into considerable notice of the social status of Amelia and her partner, the waitress decided it is best to keep quiet. It was just a drink splash after all. Might also be considered a silly mistake.
Rhea did not see it that way, she knew it was no mistake but intensional and she was not interested in keeping quiet about it. Amelia wanted trouble, then she will give her nice ones too.
Rhea looked at Amelia who smirked at her knowingly.
"Oh look at you!" Amelia gasped. "My hand just slipped you know, it reached for the cup that was so far away... I am sure you do understand" she gave Rhea a hard look and in a low voice only audible to the two of them she said
"keep your hands to yourself, this is my man!"
"Go clean up now will you, costumers wouldn't want to be served by a dirty waitress" she insulted.
Rhea turned and took a step away from the table then she turned back to look at Amelia again who grinned as she chewed on her food. 'I can't accept this!' Rhea thought.
She forced a smile and walked towards Amelia who subconsciously sank into her chair. Rhea reached in front of Amelia and bent over the table facing her.
She glared at her and said to her in a low growl.
"Be careful dear, you might be eating Devil's poisoned lunch!"
Droplets of the liquid from Rhea's cloth fell into Amelia's plate of food. Rhea maintained a long and scary eye contact with Amelia. At a point, Rhea became so scary that Amelia paled.
Seeing she had succeeded, Rhea straightened her back and walked out of the room. It was only after she left that Amelia regain her mentality.
"Who... who is that girl!" She shrieked jumping out of her seat. She gripped Eris who gave her a look she ignore out of fear.
"Get me out of here!" she said.
"I haven't had lunch yet as you can see" He responded.
"Don't you care about me at all! Get me out of this horrible place!"
"You know the way out" Eris said emotionlessly as he shrugged her off. Seeing that he was not ready to oblige, she stomped off nearly bumping into Derek who just arrived at the scene.
Before Derek could utter a word, Amelia stormed off. Derek looked at Eris who just dropped his phone and picked his cutlery to eat. He sighed and left.
"Rhea, what's did you do?" Derek asked as soon as he entered the dressing room.
"You don't trust me!" Rhea exclaimed with a gasp.
"Not that, but who else can I ask, you were the one in charge there" he explained.
"I really didn't do nothing" Rhea said but sensing his disbelief, she added "I swear"
"Rhea..." Derek gave her a knowing look.
"Look at me, that horrible bitch poured a drink on me!"
"Okay, I get it... just be nice to costumers okay" He said. He knew that Rhea was not the type of person to be rude to another for no reason, and from the look of things, it seemed the other lady was at fault. Seeing that it was not exactly a big issue, he turned to go to his office.
"Whatever" Rhea mumbled underneath her breathe.
"Anything I should hear?" Derek raised a brow.
"Go away!" Rhea glared at him. He gave a small laugh and left.
Back to the room, Eris ate his meal in a more pleasant atmosphere. He was not a woman and knew nothing about watching his weight.
He might be a tough cold and aloof guy on the outside but he loved his food so well. He did not see any reason to leave his food over a silly argument where Amelia was obviously wrong.
He knew exactly how Amelia behaves and tolerates it as far as it was not affecting him in anyway. It was no longer a surprise to why Taylor could never get along with her.
Back to the waitress, he suddenly remembered a college student he watched from afar weeks again while he wanted to pick up Amelia.
He remembered he had thought the lady seemed some what familiar but he couldn't pin point where he had met her. Perhaps, she resembled someone he was very familiar with but who? He could not tell.
Somehow, he wished he could get meet with the familiar waitress once again. She gave off a kind of vibe that was different from any other girl he had met. She was unknowingly subtle and that is dangerous. Unintentionally, he had start to wonder about her.
He finished his meal and returned to his office. He had plenty of work to do. As soon as he settled to work, his phone rang. Seeing it was Amelia, he ignored it but she called on and on persistently.
"Speak" He said after picking reluctantly.
"You hurt me today" She said. Her voice carrying a hint of sadness and she sounded as if she was at the verge of tears.
"I did not, You hurt someone" He said laying emphasis on 'you'.
"She ... she was just a bitch!" she cried. "Why do you care anyway!" she yelled and sniffed.
Silence.
Eris did not say a word as he could see she was merely throwing tantrums. And what exactly did she mean about care. He only care about one woman he thought. His mother.
'Exactly, my mother... that face—'
"Eris are you there?" Amelia asked cutting off Eris' thoughts.
"I am busy now, we will talk later" Eris said and ended the call. He returned his attention to his work.
Silently, he treated all the documents on his table one after the other diligently. One could tell that being a CEO might actually be in his blood.
*
In a club in the city, Amelia drained shots after shots of alcohol while Megan watched in amusement.
"He really doesn't care!" Amelia cried as she tugged her hair.
"You can't just tell" Megan said almost busting into laughter. Seeing Amelia being worked up by something is a rear occurrence.
"You find this fun!" she slurred reaching for another glass but Megan stopped her.
"That's enough, let me take you home already" She said.
"Nope" Amelia answered dropping her head on the table.
"Don't be silly!" Megan snapped in frustration.
Amelia raised her head and blinked twice. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes. Drunk Amelia is always like that, she would cry at any subtle jab. She was always childlike whenever she is drunk.
"Okay don't cry, sorry.. come let's go home now so you could see your Eris tomorrow" Megan said.
Hearing this, Amelia jolted and sat up. "Really?" She blinked.
"Yes, now let's go" Immediately, Amelia stood up, she stumbled but with the support of Megan, they successfully got outside the club.
Megan pulled Amelia into her car before driving to her own apartment. Eris name is quite useful in making Amelia obedient, she thought as she laid Amelia in bed.
'What a day' Megan thought as she fell asleep on the couch.